Confectionery Dreamer

Monday, June 26, 2017

Hi all! I don't know why I haven't posted for almost 5 years!!! Lol. SO many parties I want to share with you.

I am currently in party planning mode for my daughter's 13th birthday! The theme----POKEMON! I will share my ideas and how everything turned out after. :)

But now, I want to show you all the LEGO Ninjago party I did for my daughter's (Andrea) 8th birthday (2015).

I used to hate when there wasn't a lot to find for a party theme my kids want. Now I love it because I can get creative.

First, I want to share her birthday cake, which is one of my favorites I have ever done.

I hate working with fondant, so I only use it for details most of the time. It taste good, but buttercream is better (IMO).I have this thing where I love to name the food. Lol. So of course I did that for this party. It was really fun thinking up names. In no particular order here they are:

Friday, December 14, 2012

Well it is December again and that means not only Christmas but birthday party time for our baby girl! Our girls always get super excited about their parties and always have their theme picked out 6 months in advance. LOL. I think it is adorable. For our youngest, Andrea, this year she chose Super Mario. We have a Wii and she loves the Super Mario Wii game and is incredibly good at playing it! I was shocked at watching her at 4 years old beating levels in World 8 by herself. :)

For her cake this year she wanted a castle on top with lava a la World 8 in the game. She chose a pick of the cake she liked....I was not sure how to go about doing the castle at first and I decided that cookies with royal icing would be best. I try to incorporate the theme as much as I can into all aspects of their parties (see our Livi's Tangled party post). I decided to make milk chocolate mustache pops and white chocolate wii remotes. The kids loved them. She decided that she wanted to have her party in Pappy's garage again. Next year we are going to have it in our house since not as many people show up anymore. But regardless of how many people I will never stop the parties and making the best cake I possibly can for them.

So without further interruption here are the pics from her birthday party. I wonder what next year will be! :)

Friday, November 30, 2012

We are now in full swing for our youngest daughter's 5th birthday party. I can't believe she is going to be 5 and starting school next year. I am going to miss my buddy when she starts kindergarten. But onward to the birthday party plans. She loves our Wii and especially Super Mario Brothers Wii and that is her theme. We are having a Mario cake and a harvest cake. The harvest cake is a spice cake with apples and walnuts with caramel topping. Her great-grandmother used to make it and it was her signature cake. I made it for the first time this Thanksgiving and it turned out great!

I always get so excited about my girls' birthday parties and making the cakes and planning everything else. I will post again with pics of her party sometime in the next 2 weeks.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Well, our daughter's 8th Birthday is over and it was fun! The cake took pretty much a whole day, I'm really happy with how it turned out. Thankfully I have a handy husband who made the support for the cake. He took a piece of plywood, cut out a hole to fit a piece of pvc pipe, secured the pipe and cut a hole on the cake board as well.

The tower was covered in MMF and the details were gumpaste. I used a cobblestone mat for the tower, then covered it with more MMF colored to match the stucco (whatever the tower is). To get the aged effect I balled up a piece of aluminum foil and went over the MMF with it. I then took a paper towel and dipped it in brown food paste and water to help the coloring of the tower. The biggest job was the roof shingles. For the hill I used to small bowls that I baked cake in. I finished the cake and tower with some buttercream decorations and went over the edge of the cake with rosettes. The birthday girl loved it!

I also made some magical flower punch. I took a container of frozen lemonade, another of frozen pineapple juice, a 2 liter of sprite, water and star ice cubes. It was delicious! I also did the jello boats, but I ran out of time to make the sails. I thought they were still cute. I also had our party staples of fried rice and pizza.

Overall it was a lot of work and I wish I would've managed my time better, but in the end we had a great party. I loved taking the theme and bringing it to life!

The beautiful Princess of the day, wearing the Rapunzel hair I made her.